Most of the time, I think Token refers to 100 worshippers. ISTR a couple instances in which it appears to mean "a unit of whatever scale the current conflict happens to be". If I do remember those latter instances correctly, its definition is context-dependent.

In any event, I think it should be cleaned up in a hypothetical next edition of the game. Don't use the term anywhere outside the Board Game section, and define it clearly in that section.

Character sheetName: FateTitle: Steward of the CosmosPrimary Domain: Destiny

Subject: Re: Tokens Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:42 pm

Hi guys,

A token in NGoM is supposed to represent a unit of measurment in a conflict. What the actual scale / amount is determined by the parties in conflict.

For example 10 assassins infiltrate neutral territory to kill of a local tribal leader. They are found in the middle of the village by the tribal warriors. The assassins now fight against the 30 elite warriors of the tribe.

In this case there arefour tokens as the event is a household scale conflict with three tokens for the tribal warriors and 1 for the assasins.

It is also true according to the board game there are red and black tokens to represent armies and the trbe itself occupying a territory.

Here is a quote from chapter 5:

Quote :

Tokens represent a side’s resources. Table #–1 describes how many individuals (or their equivalent) a single token represents. So, when two armies of 800 soldiers each clash, the conflict is village-scale, and each side has eight tokens.

If one side in the conflict is of a different scale than the other(s), the conflict’s scale is the largest possible size. (The smaller-scale side suffers a disadvantage see Steps 2 and 3, below.) Thus, if ten townsfolk gang up on a lone traveler, the conflict is household-scale, even though one side has but a single participant.

It does for a bit. My bigger question is that on page 69 discussing followers and belief it says.

Belief is all-important to a God—with it they can teardown mountains and sway armies to their will. Without itthey are nothing but a memory. Th e most common sourceof Belief is the accumulation as the seasons turn, but it canalso gained through victories over adversity, mass sacrifice,or other means. Th e maximum Belief a God can have isequal to 100 Belief for each token they control: no methodcan increase their total beyond this.

I believe the token in this instance is a village scale token of 100 followers apiece...I also remember reading somewhere in the book that the most beliefe you could have was equal to the number of followers you had, which is why fallen gods had such a hard time getting back on thier feet...